Although milk is a natural and nutritious food, its production, treatment, management and advertising have generated controversy.
Many people believe that using milk from cows not involve any evil. It is the idyllic image that animals are like us advertising displays, free and grateful to the company that exploits it. But the reality is very different.
A dairy cow in both industrial and ecological farm is simply a property. It is a means to earn money. They are raised in order to be productive for the farmer and the quality and length of life depends on its productivity.
not know that cows give milk and water gives a tap. Cows, like all female mammals, they have become pregnant and give birth, the mammary glands to give milk.
"There is more cruelty in a glass of milk, a piece of meat."
What about the calves?
As mammals like us, the cows have a very strong maternal instinct, and therefore suffer greatly by being separated from their offspring. The calves are not beneficial to the industry milk, and therefore are sold to be slaughtered for meat.
Given this separation, in many farms the cows can be heard complaining for days. The suffering that this separation does to the calf is hardly imaginable. There have been cases of cows that have carried out acts amazing to meet with their calves, one of them walked for 7 miles to be reunited with his son after he was sold at auction.
Given this separation, in many farms the cows can be heard complaining for days. The suffering that this separation does to the calf is hardly imaginable. There have been cases of cows that have carried out acts amazing to meet with their calves, one of them walked for 7 miles to be reunited with his son after he was sold at auction.
The cows are inseminated each year or so. If the calf is born of that pregnancy is a male, is separated from his mother shortly to not drink milk consumption will human. Their destination is a short life of imprisonment and then end up in the slaughterhouse.
The beef sold in supermarkets is ultimately a product over the dairy farm.
On the other hand, any business person interested in animal feed not productive. Approximately 5 years after giving birth to 4 or 5 calves / as, cows are much less productive, so it takes them to the slaughterhouse and are replaced by their daughters. A cow can live between 20 and 25 years, but are killed at 5 years. Their meat, leather, bones, etc. also be exploited industry.
This description is very cold and is very dehumanizing, but the reality is rather crude, since we can imagine the suffering caused to both the mother and the / as children of separation, or insemination forms , marking the "cattle", etc ...
The dairy industry is the same as that of meat or leather: the steaks are the bodies of the children of dairy cows and the leather is the skin of the mothers and their children.
Decalcification consuming dairy
Milk fat is an essential nutrient, since it is the exclusive food for any breed of mammal and when it should build up your body, surrounding each of its cells with a lipid bilayer is that a double layer of fat, and nourish the brain itself, where the gray and white matter are composed mainly of fat. Everyone
lactose intolerant to a greater or lesser extent, the body manifests. Has never existed in nature, a mammal that never weaned and much less to feed milk from another species. At 3 years of age stop producing lactase, the enzyme that when babies, allows us to digest the majority of the milk sugar, lactose. Lactase Lactose not available, fermentation, energizing fungi, parasites and cancer cells.
How do you get the milk?
a cow to produce milk must be pregnant. In the jargon of the campus dairy where cows artificially inseminated called "pony rape." The cow is locked and a veterinarian put a latex glove to the shoulder and enter your entire arm into the vagina of the cow.
When the calf is born, to steal milk benefit (cash only) of humans, it is necessary to deprive him, to him, his food. Be separated from his mother, in despair and suffering of both, it is known that the fervent maternal instinct of protection and the close bond with her offspring are a constant in nature. The breeding will be fed with a liquid mixture and immobilized to prevent muscle development.
This will cause iron deficiency anemia, with its "meat" is soft and pale, a few months, will be sent to the slaughterhouse to be turned into veal.
To extend the life and milk production (up to 10 times the natural), the cow is injected with Bovine Growth Hormone (carcinogen banned in Europe. See documentary The Corporation), which causes metastases, their breasts to often reach the ground with boils that ooze pus and blood, a lot of pain continued. Milk production decline, however, by the cyclical nature of weaning and cow is raped again, separated from her young again and so several times during a painful life you will spend hours plugged into a machine often in addition to milk, not infrequently of their breasts also start pus and blood.
The so called "cash cow", even in India ended their days at the slaughterhouse (See documentary Earthlings), will be sent to slaughter sick and exhausted as meat Second, after 4 or 5 years of this hellish torture when released he would have lived 20.
All that stress and adrenaline is consumed by the "human infant" who pays the karma of the commodification of life with its winding diseases. It is no coincidence that dairy intake is directly related to breast cancer.
Other animals exploited for their milk
Cows are not the only animals being exploited for their milk. Sheep, goats, mares, are also used for the same reason. In all cases, repeating the same injustice: individuals reared, imprisoned and finally killed in order to obtain from them a product for our consumption.
Alternatives to animal milk
Despite the claims of the advertising campaigns of the dairy industry or what we're used to / I hear, it is necessary to take milk nonhuman animals for good health and get the necessary daily intake of calcium. We can substitute milk if you want other vegetable milks.
... " and calcium?
is true that we need calcium to keep our bones strong and prevent the onset of diseases such as osteoporosis, but cow's milk or milk products are neither the only nor the best source of calcium. We can get calcium from other foods such as green leafy vegetables, nuts, spinach, fortified soy milk, tofu, vegetable margarine, orange juice fortified with calcium, dried figs, sesame tahini, molasses, etc.
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